This is a perplexing question, as it relates to the WBTS. In some ways, yes. In others, no. I, like many of you, recently (and for the 3rd or 4th time), watched Ken Burns' PBS documentary, The Civil War. Even though I have several criticisms of the Burns' film, I still find it a fascinating piece of work and very educational. I've always thoroughly enjoyed watching the film, despite its shortcomings. One of the more moving parts of this film comes near the end, as shown below. Pay close attention at about 30 seconds in and listen as historian David McCullough narrates the moving "reenactment" of Pickett's charge at the 50th anniversary reunion at Gettysburg. I believe one can detect the emotion in McCullough's voice as it sounds like he almost chokes up in recounting the emotional event. I don't think he's acting. I don't mind admitting that I too was moved with emotion in hearing McCullough recount the story . . .

When are we just going to AMERICANS??
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When all of the liberals, progressives and pinkos are gone, so it looks like we have a longgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg wait...... and where do most of them live? East and west coast with small pockets elsewhere but the South is red country for the most part and you KNOW IT!

Sure it does General Lee. It means the North beat your ass. And using communist Vietnam as an analogy is pretty piss poor. It wasn’t about communism in 1861. How would you Rebs be treating the rest of us if your side had won?

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posted on 04/18/2011 3:19:24 PM PDT
by jmacusa
(Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)

Lets see... an ad hominem followed by a refusal to address the question. Doesnt appear to be much snickering there. Youre not having much luck, are you rocky? Looks like youre giving up. Maybe its not too late for you to drop the class without getting a failing grade. Maybe we should poll the thread.

I would volunteer to contribute to the poll - but rockrr seems to have stopped responding, and wandered off somewhere...

;>)

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posted on 04/18/2011 4:11:47 PM PDT
by Who is John Galt?
("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)

My guess is jmacusa hasn't won anything in his life, and has doesn't even know how to spell honor.

On one hand, we have John Adams saying to King George after defeating the British:"I have the Honor to assure your Majesty of their unanimous Disposition and Desire to cultivate the most friendly and liberal Intercourse between your Majestys Subjects and their Citizens"

Or we have Beauregard allowing Anderson and his regiment to keep their arms upon surrender and salute the flag upon lowering it at Sumter.

Then we have jmacusa and his "Sure it does General Lee. It means the North beat your ass."

you know...if they don't like the south and our history then just ignore us

i don't go running to post threads about things I dislike about non southerners

nor things I myself like about my own kind either really

these folks claims they want us to all be Americans

what they want is the right to insult us without consequence so they can preen with indignation over something they rarely know much about or they have their own skin in the game

but historically I have found less angry black guys-gals here and more just obnoxious brainwashed what culture war pitiful Woods(a denigration of the term) from homogeneous areas that know nothing about much except what they think is the right answer in politically correct terms...but for that they are on the wrong forum..try Kos or HuffPo...

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posted on 04/19/2011 12:50:18 AM PDT
by wardaddy
(ok...Trump beating on Obama---Sarah----Michelle.....any of them are ok for now---tain't picky)

"The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language." -- Jefferson Davis President CSA

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posted on 04/19/2011 6:59:11 AM PDT
by central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)

Charles Francis Adams's claims were investigated and largely refuted in his own lifetime by Colonel Edgar Dudley. You can find Dudley's article here. So far as I know, in the century since Dudley wrote, no one has disproved his findings.

Since Adams backs you up on this, he's trustworthy and admirable. If he disagreed with you about secession, you'd attack him as a typical elitist and racist Boston Brahmin (which he largely was, not a "Yankee" by the way -- at least not the way we use the word up heah).

There's no point in discussing with you: the way your spelling, grammar, and capitalization have improved over the past week, you'll have seen through all this neoconfederate nonsense by the end of this week, if not sooner.

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